On Benjamin$, Edit-whores, and Others

Tom Tomorrow has a biting cartoon entitled “Our Umpteen Millionth Look at How the News Works.”

Harry Reid finally decides to play hardball with the obstructionist Republican minority in the Senate, forcing the Repugs to filibuster an up or down vote on the quagmire in Iraq. Good timing on Reid’s part: Sixty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Bush’s handling of the Iraqi quagmire and sixty-four percent are aware that the troop surge has failed, according to a new Newsweek poll.

John McCain all but admits that there’s no point in spending his wife’s fortune on his dead-in-the-water campaign saying, “I value my marriage too much.”

Speaking of quotes, The Raw Storyhas one from Republican George Voinovich that’s a must read.